# Fee & Payments

### **How Fee and Payment Works**

* 10% HackenProof operational and judging fee (onboarding, maintenance, advisory, reports validation, final report)
* Pay rewards in stablecoin, fiat, or your own token/coin
* We'll also require a 100% refundable deposit to ensure that the company will pay for the audit.

### Payments for valid reports

* 40% for critical issues
* 30% for high issues
* 15% for medium issues
* 5% gas optimization issues, best practices

#### Example for 1000 LOC and a $15 000 budget:

* $6 000 for critical issues
* $4 500 for high
* $2 250 for medium
* $750 for gas optimization issues, best practices
* $1 500 for operational and judging fee

### **Audit Cancellation:**

We don't have a rescheduling fee, in case the new start day is less than 60 days away, otherwise, it goes under the cancellation rules

* If you cancel more than 10 days before the start date → 95% deposit refund
* If you cancel 5 - 10 days before the audit start date → 90% deposit refund
* If you cancel less than 5 days before the audit start date → 80% deposit refund